Thingiverse Crawler

About:

Thingiverse Crawler is a simple script to batch download things from Thingiverse. It does not use the thingiverse API because non-web application flow is not yet supported.

The script dynamically update wait time to prevent it being blocked by Thingiverse website.

This script has been modified to accomplish the following:

Use thingiverse's built in search functionality to grab models matching a user defined query
Remove required input of number of models when using the above mentioned search
Remove repeated calls to the same page. Original script would loop until it hit the user defined number even if there were no more pages

Example:

Retrieve information of the newest featured 1000 things:

$ ./thingiverse_crawler.py -n 1000

Retrieve information of things matching a search query

$ ./thingiverse_crawler.py -s "kobayashi cube"

Retrieve limited number of things matching a search query

$ ./thingiverse_crawler.py -s "kobayashi cube" -n 1000

A summary.csv will be created. It contians the following information:

thing_id
file_id
file: where to store the output file.
license: info about the license it is published in.
link: direct link for download.

To download all 1000 files:

$ ./download_model.py summary.csv

To grab context of each thing (i.e. tags, dates, categories):

$ ./grab_context.py summary.csv

To get a single file using its thing_id

$ ./get_file.py thing_id

Modifed By :

Nikita Srivatsan

PhD Student

Mike Gleason

Web Developer

Original Author:

Qingnan Zhou

New York University